Educating Educators with Social Media
Educating Educators with Social Media by Charles Wankel, published by Emerald Group Publishing on January 17, 2011, is a comprehensive volume that explores the innovative use of social media in educational contexts. Spanning 422 pages, this book presents a collection of reports detailing how various social networking technologies are utilized to enhance the education of educators. It highlights the integration of students and alumni in co-curricular activities through platforms such as wikis, blogs, and Twitter, showcasing both creative applications and critical analyses of these tools.
Readers will find in-depth discussions on the design, delivery, and evaluation of instruction using social media, with a focus on topics like the impact of these technologies in developing countries and their role in fostering peer-based learning. The book examines new teaching methodologies that leverage social media to enhance classroom participation and develop educators’ technical skills necessary for modern curriculum projects. Additionally, it addresses the creation of a supportive ecosystem for lifelong learning through the effective use of social media, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the intersection of education and technology.
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Social media are increasingly popular platforms for collaboration and quick information sharing. This volume is a collection of reports on how these technologies are being used to educate educators with social media in creative and effective ways. Social networking technologies enable the integration of students and alumni in co-curricular activities in exciting and still evolving ways. The use of wikis, blogs, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, text messaging, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, Yahoo Pipes, Diigo, Second Life, Moodle, and other Web 2.0 technologies are shown in vivid examples and insightful critiques. The processes, design, delivery and evaluation of instruction using social media are examined in detail and include such topics as: the use of social media in developing countries for new approaches to teaching as support for individual and peer-based learning; new teaching orientations premised on social media such as focused distraction; enhancing in-class participation; how instructors are increasing the technical expertise that is needed by educators to develop their own 21st century curricula projects; and, creating an ecosystem for life-long learning through social media.
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